lets assume your button are hyperlinks
so the element for that is "a"
$("a").click(function() {
var id = this.attr("id"); // variable id will contain the clicked elements
ID
so you can say something like
id.addClass("clicked");
alert(id+" was clicked");
});
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Ingo <ingemar.strandb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm quite new to jQuery and have a question.
>
> I'm populating a table with rows where some of the columns include
> links and buttons. For some of these links and buttons I want to run
> some jQuery stuff before it's redirected (acually, I want to have the
> result loaded in a div via ajax). In the jQuery function I want to be
> able to extract the ID of the button or the href target that was
> clicked.
>
> Now, the problem I'm having is that each of the rows in the table will
> generate a different ID for the buttons (otherwise it's not possible
> to separate them, right). How will I know in the jQuery function which
> button was pressed?
>
> I would be VERY glad for any help I can get. Please inform me if my
> explaination of the problem is unclear.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> /Ingo
>
